Gal Lapid
Senior Software Engineer at VAST Data
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGal Lapid is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with six years of experience building control-plane and security-focused systems across startups and research environments. He currently contributes to storage and systems engineering at VAST Data, bringing a background that spans security R&D, Linux systems engineering in military intelligence, and hands-on teaching of operating systems and Python. His work history blends production engineering with security research at Cybellum and pragmatic academic instruction at Reichman University and Holon Institute of Technology. Gal is comfortable shipping low-level, performance-sensitive code and translating complex security requirements into reliable implementations. Notably, his trajectory from cyber R&D in the Israel Defense Forces to senior roles in industry reflects a strong operational discipline and threat-aware engineering mindset. He combines practical teaching experience with deep systems knowledge, making him effective at both mentoring peers and delivering robust infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Reichman University
English, HebrewProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
beyond-io/sellotape
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:29 reviews, 41 commits, 37 PRs in 2 months
11galpid/sellotape
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 23 branches in 2 months
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